Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has announced CQU nursing graduate and emergency nurse Glen Riverstone as being 1 of the State’s top innovators, awarding him $85,000 to help develop his SNAPIT invention.

Mr Riverstone’s newly-formed company River Logic was among 5 recipients in the latest round of grants under the Queensland Government Innovation Start-Up Scheme.

Central Queensland University's Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor recently hosted University supporters in Rockhampton, to discuss progress on a range of developments.

Updates included the organisational restructure, the trend towards cooperative (industry-relevant) education, the reinvigoration of courses, new research foci, and measures to attract additional international students to Rockhampton (as well as at other locations).

Centre for Plant and Water Science Post Doctoral Research Fellow Dr Surya P. Bhattarai recently presented a paper during the third International Groundwater Conference (IGC-2007) on 'Water, Environment and Agriculture - present problems and future challenges' at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, India.

Health workers throughout Central Queensland will have less need to travel to Brisbane for their professional development, thanks to a new service from CQU.

The University has started a Professional Nursing and Continuing Education Centre, which aims to provide monthly courses delivered by specialists in a variety of fields.

Five times CQU student mentor Sherry O’Brien is excited about being in Rockhampton this week.

The CQU Bundaberg graduate is now enrolled with CQU as an external student in a Graduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching (GDLT) - but it is her experience helping other students survive their journey through tertiary studies that really inspires her.

New and continuing CQU Bundaberg students have been dusting off the cobwebs at Uni Skills week in preparation for the beginning of a new year of tertiary education.

Uni Skills comprises a variety of workshops including academic writing skills, mathematics, science, study skills, library research skills and introductory computing.

CQU's Professor David Midmore (pictured below) was an invited speaker for the inaugural meeting of Green Roofs for Healthy Australian Cities, during a conference on Green Roofs for Australia at the Brisbane Technology Park in Brisbane recently (Feb 22-23).

The conference attracted speakers from the US, Canada and most Australian states with presentations on the energy-saving, water-conserving, and biodiversity-promoting benefits of green roofs (roofs that are covered to some degree by vegetation).

Central Queensland University has announced its Teachers of the Year for 2006.

Staff from across all campuses were evaluated based on their applications for Teaching Excellence Awards.

Congratulations to CQU graduate Terry Effeney who has been chosen as the new CEO for Energex.

Mr Effeney, who has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from CQU, was previously Chief Operating Officer for Ergon Energy.

CQU's Learning and Teaching showcase participants and supporters gathered for a social function on Thursday night.

The Showcase included keynote speaker Dr Gary Poole from the University of British Columbia, Canada; a student panel discussion; presentations by CQU staff and academics from elsewhere in Australia; and a debate on the teaching-research nexus.